Just in time for the holiday shopping season of 1967, Random House published Andy Warhol’s Index (Book). It came in a hologram cover with Campbell’s Tomato Juice endpapers, several 3-D pop-ups, and a flexi disc donning Lou Reed’s portrait. For counterculture bibliophiles, there was a deluxe edition, tinfoil-bound. The process by which Warhol’s book came together was so complex—and unusual—the publisher recounted it in an internal memo that was itself written like a children’s book.
Through documents in the Random House records held at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library and interviews with Warhol’s collaborators, art historian Lucy Mulroney sheds new light on this iconic twentieth-century artist’s lifelong interest in publishing.
Speaker: Lucy Mulroney, Associate Director for Collections, Research, and Education, Beinecke Library, Yale University
This lecture is a part of the Book History Colloquium series. NOTE: This event will be live-streamed to Columbia Libraries' Facebook page.
